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An End To eDiscovery? A Conversation With Logikcull CEO Andy Wilson

Putting an end to these unexpected, exorbitant ediscovery fees.

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eDiscovery Stamp [Recovered]2016 has been a busy year for ediscovery.

In January, Berkeley based start-up Everlaw raised an $8.1 million series A round from Silicon Valley mega-fund Andreessen Horowitz; in February, Thomson Reuters launched their own ediscovery product; and in March, kCura (maker of Relativity) acquired Content Analyst (maker of CAAT).

Meanwhile, San Francisco based Logikcull has been on a mission to end ediscovery, and Andy Wilson, Logikcull’s CEO, has been having some good fun with it along the way. At the Legaltech show in February, Logikcull was handing out (and emailing) fake ediscovery invoices to attendees. But, according to Wilson, not everyone got the joke, in part, because the ediscovery platforms used by lawyers today involve software that is installed with the help of a human behind a firm’s firewall, as opposed to Logikcull which an on-demand, cloud-based service that you use from any browser on any device. Wilson and co-founder Sheng Yang want to put an end to these unexpected, exorbitant fees, which is why, last year, Logikcull announced a flat fee pricing model, not tied in any way to set up or data storage.

I know the word “cloud” has the tendency to make lawyers fall asleep, so let me share with you the story of Logikcull.

Before Logikcull was a tech start-up, it was a highly profitable company called Logik that helped law firms with discovery. And by highly profitable, I mean $3 million a year in profit from 2004-2009 with just seven employees. But, when the Recession hit and business began to dry up, Wilson and Yang pivoted and began investing company cash to build Logikcull.

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Last year, they raised a $4.5 million seed round from Jason Lemkin, one of the most respected VC’s in Silicon Valley (a different CEO of a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars once told me that if he were starting a software as a service company today, Lemkin would be his first choice for a lead investor). And, while I cannot share numbers, I can tell you that Logikcull is doing gangbusters in business. Earlier in April, I had a chance to visit with Wilson at Logikcull’s San Francisco office, and he is joining me this week for a conversation on ATL. As always, this is not a “live chat” it’s a real-life conversation and we’re responding on our own schedule, so if you’d like to follow along as the convo unfolds just click that blue follow button below and drop in your email.

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Zach Abramowitz is a former Biglaw associate and currently CEO and co-founder of ReplyAll. You can follow Zach on Twitter (@zachabramowitz) or reach him by email at zach@replyall.me.

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